Apple Photos and Its Sometimes Odd Library Structures

I’ve been using Apple Photos, and before that, Apple iPhotos, to manage my, er, photos for a long, long, time, likely back to their introduction in 2002. Over that time I’ve made a few libraries, for family and some for other things, and then at points I’ve merged them back together to make a larger single library. However, a few months ago I was checking my SpiderOak backups, which basically take a backup of the ‘Masters’ folder inside the photo library bundle, which is where the original photos are kept nowadays, and I noticed that I had no ‘year’ folders for 2001-2003, but I knew that I had photos from those years as they were viewable as normal in the application....

2019-02-01